Daily Archives: September 2, 2014

Photo-A-Day, Toys

A Chorus of DigiBirds


Photo-A-Day #3434

We received a big box of DigiBirds from Silverlit Toys today. I will be making a video and posting more photos of these cute little toys soon. For today I opened them all up for the kids to play with. They were so excited to play with the DigiBirds and wanted me to open all of them up. I only opened these five because they were in bubble wrap while there were still three more in the traditional packaging plus accessories. We had enough excitement just playing with the five individual birds.

The birds are fun. They tweet, sing songs and move their heads and beaks. They can be played with as individual birds or put together as a chorus where one bird is the lead and the rest sing along in unison. There are 20 songs that each bird plays but you can unlock additional songs using the app for iOS or Android.

A full review to come later.

Review, Television, Transformers

DVD Review: Transformers Beast Machines, The Complete Series

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Transformers Beast Machines - The Complete Series

It is 1996 and I am graduating from college. I haven’t watched a Transformers cartoon series since Generation 1 and along comes this whole new series set in Cybertron’s future where there are still two warring factions the heroic Maximals and evil Predacons. The two groups crash land on an Earth-like planet and for 52 episodes we are treated to some of the best Transformers storytelling to come along, out side of the comics which were always pretty great. This series sparked a bit of a Transformers rebirth and when the credits fell on the last episode fans wanted more.

They got more… in the form of the 26 episode series Beast Machines. Beast Machines told the story of the return to Cybertron after the Maximals were stranded on Earth. Yes, the planet was actually Earth and not earth of the future but Earth of the far flung past slightly later than when the Autobots and Decepticons crash landed upon it. The Maximals return to Cybertron with a captured Megatron but the triumph turns tragic when the team gets separated, their memories are lost and Decepticon vehicons are hunting them down all over the planet. What’s worse is that they cannot transform.

Outnumbered by a much wider margin than on Earth the Maximals hide deep within Cybertron and find the organic core of the planet. What happens next in the remainder of the series was pretty amazing and I really enjoyed it. I was so happy to get an advanced copy of this DVD before today’s release date. It came out of the blue and I hadn’t asked for it so I am even more thrilled. The only series I still have to collect would be the complete series of Transformers: Cybertron, Transformers: Robots in Disguise and Seasons 2 & 3 of Transformers Beast Wars (the predecessor to Beast Machines)

The Beast Machines DVD also has some bonus features including interviews with series developer Marv Wolfman, story editor Robert N. Skir, voice director Susan Blue and voice actor David Kaye.

You can pick up this DVD through my Amazon.com link at Transformers Beast Machines: The Complete Series.